{"id":27988,"date":"2018-04-04T06:40:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=27988"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:29:31","slug":"france-nation-honours-heroic-police-officer-motivated-deep-faith-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/04\/04\/france-nation-honours-heroic-police-officer-motivated-deep-faith-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE : Nation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>FRANCE<br \/>\nNation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tributes have been paid across France to the heroic police officer who was killed after he offered himself in exchange for a female hostage during an Islamist attack at the supermarket siege in the small village of Trebes in southern France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame, saying he symbolised &#8220;the French spirit of resistance\u201d at a state funeral in Paris on Wednesday. \u201cTo accept to die so the innocent can live: that is the essence of what it means to be a soldier,\u201d Mr Macron said as he delivered his eulogy at Invalides military museum. \u201cOthers, even many who are brave, would have wavered or hesitated.\u201d Beltrame\u2019s name would live forever while his attackers would sink into oblivion, Mr Macron said. The President was joined at the ceremony by his predecessors Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The coffin carrying Arnaud Beltrame was driven in heavy rain through the streets of Paris from the Pantheon \u2013 a secular mausoleum for French heroes &#8211; through the Latin Quarter and along the quays of the Seine to the Invalides. Hundreds lined the streets despite the weather and joined a national memorial service. Schools and police stations around the country observed a minute\u2019s silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beltrame served in Iraq in 2005 and received the Legion of Honour, France\u2019s highest award, in 2012. Last year he was named deputy commander of anti-terror police in the Aude region. He was married civilly on August 27, 2016, to Marielle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>What motivated him to risk his life for a stranger?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fr Dominique Arz, the national chaplain of the gendarmerie, said: \u201cIt turns out that the lieutenant-colonel was a practising Catholic. The fact is that he did not hide his faith and that he radiated it, he bore witness to it. We can say that his act of self-offering is consistent with what he believed. He served his country to the very end, and bore witness to his faith to the very end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fr Jean Baptiste, one of the Canons Regular of the Mother of God of Lagrasse Abbey, who knew Beltrame well said he did not come from a religious family but he had \u201cexperienced a genuine conversion\u201d around 2008. He was then baptised and confirmed. Fr Baptiste, who was preparing Beltrame and Marielle for a religious wedding in June, commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u201cPassionate about the gendarmerie, he has always had a passion for France, her greatness, her history and her Christian roots which he rediscovered with his conversion. By substituting himself for the hostages, he was probably motivated by a commitment to gallantry as an officer, because for him being a policeman meant protecting. But he knew an incredible risk that he was taking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHe also knew the promise of religious marriage he made to Marielle, who is already his wife and who he loved tenderly, as I witnessed. So, was the right to take such a risk? It seems to me that only his faith can explain the madness of this sacrifice which is today the admiration of all. He knew as Jesus told us, that \u2018There is no greater love than to give one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends\u2019 (John 15.13). He knew that if his life began to belong to Marielle, it was also to God, to France, to his brothers in danger of death. I believe that only a Christian faith animated by charity could ask for this superhuman sacrifice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beltrame\u2019s sacrifice is being compared to that of St Maximilian Kolbe, who died in 1941 after volunteering to take the place of a fellow prisoner condemned to death at Auschwitz. Two cities in southern France, Pau and Beziers, have announced they are naming streets in his honour, and the mayor of Versailles said he plans to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE Nation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith &nbsp; Tributes have been paid across France to the heroic police officer who was killed after he offered himself in exchange for a female hostage during an Islamist attack at the supermarket siege in the small village of Trebes in southern France&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FRANCE : Nation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/04\/04\/france-nation-honours-heroic-police-officer-motivated-deep-faith-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FRANCE : Nation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FRANCE Nation honours heroic police officer who was motivated by his deep faith &nbsp; 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